Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Massive spams from yahoo.com email accounts and why we should be shocked

Over the years, I received thousands of emails from friends and acquaintances reporting that they got stranded in a foreign country, such as Spain or England, and asking that I please send money. Almost all such messages are from yahoo.com email addresses. A sample follows:

Hello,

I'm writing this with tears in my eyes, My family and I came down here to Madrid, Spain for a short vacation, unfortunately we were mugged at the park of the hotel where we stayed,all cash,credit card and mobile phone were stolen off us but luckily for me i still have my passports with me.

I've been to the embassy and the Police here but they're not helping issues at all and my flight leaves any moment from today but we're having problems settling the hotel bills and the hotel manager won't let me leave until i settle the bills,

I'm freaked out at the moment.....I need your help out i need some cash to settle the hotel bill promise to refund it back to you all i need is £1,750.00 GBP or any amount you can afford .will be going along in helping me out

Very, very few of the yahoo.com email account holders complained or expressed concerns
about their addresses being used to spam others. Their names are used to do potentially damaging things such as mass mailing pornography; but they don't care enough to speak up.

Almost all these yahoo.com email account holders continue to use their compromised yahoo.com accounts. This is as if a person
continues to use the same bank account after a stranger had transfered $10,000 out of that account to a Dubai bank.

It is unlikely I am the only person receiving such attacks. That is, others are being massively attacked as well. Then why is it that I cannot find useful information when I search Google for something like "spam from yahoo.com", with or without quotes? This is as if googling for twin towers two months after they were destroyed and obtained no matches. I include the first page of such an unhelpful Google search at the end.

Another massive spam attack from yahoo.com accounts has the appearance of promoting one web site or another, like so:

awesome you should check this out wow http://www.finance15tanews.net/biz/?news=1265628

The first page of an unhelpful Google search for spam from yahoo.com on 2012-06-12 follows: